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Carna man gets year off the road for parking
A Galway man was put off the road for a year by Judge Mary Devins at this week’s sitting of Ballina District Court.
Funeral held following farm death
The funeral has taken place of Stephen Gannon, the Roscommon farmer whose life was claimed in a farming accident earlier this week.
The Oil Company gives you a chance to win a break
The Oil Company under the management of John Sweeney based in Galway and Clifden are running a fantastic promotion from October through to March.
Funding for Carna Lifeboat boathouse
Funding totalling €200,000 has been announced this week towards the provision of a boathouse in Carna for the Carna and Islands Lifeboat.
Joe Éinniú collection donated to NUI Galway
Audio-visual material, sound recordings, images, and documents concerning Joe Éinniú, one of the greatest of all sean nós singers, was presented to NUI Galway this week.
Sailing and horse racing communities grieve tragic deaths
The Galway sailing and horse racing community have been plunged into a state of shock and grief following the tragic drowning of a Connemara boatsman and the death of a young up-and-coming jockey in a suspected arson attack last weekend.
Bus Éireann to run trial Carna to Galway service
Bus Éireann has agreed to run a Carna to Galway city commuter bus on a trial basis to service workers commuting to the city according to Fianna Fáil Galway West TD Frank Fahey.
Home thoughts from abroad
It was a twofold mission — to do the best you could for yourself and to do the best you could for the folks at home. Margaret Craven was talking about emigration from Ireland the way it used to be in the 1960s. She knows. She left her native Letterard in Connemara as a teenager. She was then Margaret Connolly and, like thousands of others of her generation, the bells of emigration were tolling for her early in her life. She was speaking in Portland in the state of Maine in America last week. She is now a state representative for the Democrats in the state parliament in Maine; next week she will almost certainly be a state senator. She has an election next Tuesday and the bells are tolling for her Republican opponent. But last Monday it was the bells in the Church of St Dominick in Portland that tolled and told the story of the Irish in the state of Maine. And it brought together many elements of the Irish diaspora.
